Unicorns!
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| Editors | Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Ace anthology series |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Ace Books |
Publication date | 1982 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 310 |
| ISBN | 0-441-85441-9 Search this book on  . |
| Preceded by | Aliens! |
| Followed by | Magicats! |
Unicorns! is a themed anthology of fantasy short works edited by American writers Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in May 1982, and reprinted by the same publisher in November 1982, June 1984, and October 1984. It was reissued as an ebook by Baen Books in March 2013. The book has also been translated into German.[1]
The volume collects sixteen short stories by various science fiction authors, together with a historical essay on the role of unicorns in modern fiction by Avram Davidson.[2] The stories were sourced from pulp magazines, with the exception of "The Unicorn" by T. H. White, which is a well-known chapter from his book, Once and Future King, telling the story of "the hunting and killing of the beast of innocence".[2] It also includes a bibliography of further reading.
In his review of the anthology for Mythlore, Thomas M. Egan wrote that although four of the works by L. Sprague de Camp, Roger Zelazny, Larry Niven, and Gardner Dozois were lighter in tone, "it's the tragic element and the use of the innocence of the unicorn that is stressed in most tales."[2] The beauty of the unicorn contrasts with the ugliness of the modern state and society in the stories by Stephen R. Donaldson, Vonda N. McIntyre, and Gene Wolfe.[2] Other notable science fiction writers whose stories are featured include Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Theodore Sturgeon, Beverly Evans, Frank Owen, Eric Norden, and Thomas Burnett Swann.[2]
A second unicorn anthology, Unicorns II, was published in 1992.
Contents[edit]
- "Introduction" (Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois)
- "The Spoor of the Unicorn" (Avram Davidson)
- "The Silken-Swift" (Theodore Sturgeon)
- "Eudoric's Unicorn" (L. Sprague de Camp)
- "The Flight of the Horse" (Larry Niven)
- "On the Downhill Side" (Harlan Ellison)
- "The Night of the Unicorn" (Thomas Burnett Swann)
- "Mythological Beast" (Stephen R. Donaldson)
- "The Final Quarry" (Eric Norden)
- "Elfleda" (Vonda N. McIntyre)
- "The White Donkey" (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- "Unicorn Variation" (Roger Zelazny)
- "The Sacrifice" (Gardner Dozois)
- "The Unicorn" (Frank Owen)
- "The Woman the Unicorn Loved" (Gene Wolfe)
- "The Forsaken" (Beverly Evans)
- "The Unicorn" (T. H. White)
- "I Love Them" (Scrump the Texan)
- "Selected Bibliography"
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